So tonights episode; painful to say the least. Sorry about the essay but if the writing was a little better this would be a little shorter.

Ok so the show starts off relatively quickly, the group getting to the site of the anomaly and watching some nice cars zoom around.

Whilst it still eludes me why all 4? Of the seemingly useless misfits should go I let it pass, also letting it pass that between them they only have a shotgun and two pistols and their supposed to be prepared for anything…Anyway.

They get inside the building and there is the anomaly nice and shiny, a pleasure to watch sparkle. Seems there is some goo (gets me hoping alien will kill one of them) so for some reason they spread out and instead of perhaps using a torch which would have been in Becker’s back pack he flicks a coin in, a proven method of determining if a vicious or non vicious creature is in the darkness. The scare as the creature appears from atop of the container. Whilst later in the episode the creature shows no remorse for the poor idiotic fellows it seems once again vicious man eating creatures like to give the leads a head start as we cut to Quinn being chased by the pretty cool half mantis half ant thing. For some reason Quinn stops allowing for the dramatic scene of the creature oh so slowly getting ready to kill him. Splat, nice gore over the top but it worked. So having rushed us into the beginning (it felt very rushed to me) we get back to them picking up the pieces. I would like to think they were paying homage to eight legged freaks as the only noticeable body part left is the nice plastic thorny leg.

Second annoyance, they seem to assume that only one creature could have come through and don’t seem to acknowledge the fact that in this show if the bad creature dies early on, there is more than 1.

I can’t remember if there was another scene before this but perhaps this was most frustrating scene of the entire show. Seriously the shows writing had improved but once again they had forget to check the script for agonisingly painful clichés that perhaps would have worked if the CGI was replaced with puppets, you know so it all looked stupid, not just bits of it. So we cut to the tired old scene of two ‘security’ guys playing cards. Now remember these men have extensive training, hand picked for this job and were told to watch over this anomaly and the building, you know; to make sure no more terrifying creatures were around. So naturally when they hear a strange insect-like noise THEY THINK NOTHING OF IT! As expected the sound occurs again, they decide to check it out. Now remember these are professionals, professionals who go to check out a strange noise in a building that had a giant carnivorous insect in it not hours before WITHOUT ANY WEAPONS. And if that didn’t get you then perhaps the fact that they both bend down by a dark trailer with neither of them watching the others back might. Surprise thinks the creature looking down at the pathetic men before it. It takes it time to choose between the fine cuisine before gingerly bending down plucking one of the men up and devouring him horribly. For some reason the man thinks it would be a better idea to hide from said giant insect than to grab his weapon and of course is promptly eaten.

Cut to: Abby’s retard of a brother who naturally doesn’t believe such a hip young girl works for the zoo at irregular hours. So he steals her what looks like advanced GPS and gets to the track, proceeds in (sorry if I missed anything prior to this) and is pretty wowed by the cars as you can expect someone of his calibre to be rather than perhaps wondering about the abandoned weapons and card game nearby. So he gets into the car, gets the phone for some reason picking up I assume callerID is to blame and has an amusing conversation where he has put 2 +2 together and ended up with 16. Then he finally spots the dead guys, I must point out it was awefully nice of the creature to stay put, hidden behind the other side of the container until he had finished his conversation. So he is in the car again, this time under attack manages to drive through the big glowy thing before getting out and falling through the floor which I must admit I didn’t see coming yet in hindsight is a clever plot device ensuring he doesn’t get himself killed in the amount of time it would take the team to reach the anomaly.

So the team gets to the anomaly and Becker says they should wait for back up although you wonder why they didn’t think of bringing back up with them in the first place… You have to honestly wonder what this team hopes to achieve, they have only a shotgun and 2 pistols between them, I mean why? What happened to Becker’s G36 it’s embarrassing. “We have to save him.”
“I agree lets put our inexperienced, poor-judgement, ill equipped team into the future filled with all kinds of nasty things to save one idiots life even though Darwin was hoping to cleanse the gene pool once more.”
“Sounds like a plan.” And off they go.
Now they’re through the anomaly and it isn’t long before they run into trouble with Abby telling Action Man he shouldn’t have saved her life and general chit chat usual in this sort of thing. It’s about this time whatever his name is wakes up and starts yelling, as you do in a dark scary place.

Confusion: He is attacked by a grub in the lair of one of the insects. This doesn’t make sense so I hope someone can explain it to me. When he first discovers the dead bodies there is a baby bug, this implies that any grub must be far smaller than the one he grapples with so this grub must be for some other random creature we haven’t seen yet?

Anyway by this time I was already in chronic depression from the new depths this show had sunk to so the rest of the show didn’t annoy me as much and I enjoyed seeing future predators getting killed by MantisAnts.

I don’t know why I keep watching, although there is clear improvement in the writing this season with the carnivorous prehistoric birds episode the most, dare I say it enjoyable ever episode for me, it’s episodes like this which seem to purposely aim to insult the viewers intelligence and throw in as many clichés as they can.

At least cardboard Cutter is dead :)

Sorry about the rant, but it's all true isn't it?